Tile lock



3 Oct. 18,1927. 1,646,312

L. B. c. PERKINS ET AL.

TILE LOCK Filed Sept. 24, 1926 12.5. C. Pel'lilhs and,

. e I Q anon-W11 Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 1

L. B. CI-IOC PERKINS AND H. DOBBINS, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

TILE LOCK.

Application filed September 24,1926. Serial No. 137,526.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby tile may be held against a.

wall, jamb, frame or otherstructural elements.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and inthe de tails of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in perspective, a device constructed in accordance with the invention- V Figure 2 is a perspective view wherein the article is shown in use as a means for connecting tile to a brick wall;

Figure 3 is a perspective view wherein the device is shown as a means for holding tile upon a door frame; and V Figure 4 is a view wherein the article ap-' pears in use as a means forbinding a wall of brick or tile to a window frame.

The device forming the subject matter of this application comprises a strip 1 of bendable rnetal, one end portion 2 of which is supplied with transverse corrugations 3, the other end portion 4 of which is supplied with 1011- gitudinal corrugations 5, the corrugations, 3 and 5 covering the entire surface of the strip 1. In the end portions 2 and 4 of the strip 1 there are openings 6 which afiord a mortar clinch. Along their longitudinal edges, the end portions 2 and 4: of the strip 1 are supplied with perforations 7.

The strip 1 may be laid between tile8 in a wall, to anchor the tile to a wall of brick 9, or other structural elements, one end of the strip 1 being placed upon the tile 8, and the other end of the strip overlapping the wall made out of the members 9. If desired, the

strip 1 may be bent transversely as at 10, to

form rectangularly disposed wings 11 and" 12, as in Figure 3, the wings 11 being held on the lintel 14 of a doorway, orupon the stiles 15 thereof, by securing elements inserted through the perforations 7, the wing 12 entering between the tiles 16 in the wall. The strip 1, having been nailed at one end to the doorframe, may be bent into any desired shape, at the other end, as Figure 3 will show. In Figure 4, the wing 11 is nailed at 17 to a window frame 18, and the wing 12 overlaps and lies between bricks 19 or. other structural elements in the wall.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the classy described, a

against longitudinal slipping and also permitting the strip to be bent at the innermost transverse corrugation and at the inner 7 end of the longitudinal corrugations, to form angularly disposed wings.

2 .In a device of the class described,a strip provided at one end with longitudinal corrugations, and at the other end with transverse corrugations, all of the corrugations being of substantially the same height, each end portion of the strip being supplied with openings of sufficient size to afford a mortar clinch, the strip being supplied along its longitudinal edges, with perforations of such size as toreceive securing elements.

3. In a device of the class described, a

strip provided at one end with longitudinal corrugations, and at the other end with transverse corrugations, all of the corrugations being of substantially the same height,

each end portion of the strip beingsupplied with openings of sufficient size to afford a mortar clinc 7 In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto afiixed our signatures. I

L. noHoo PERKINS; RAY H. DOBBINS. 

